Jasper County MO Archives Biographies.....BOGGESS, Samuel Cleveland August 12, 1874 - June 27, 1946
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Author: Joel T Livingston
(transcribed, 3/1/06)
From: "A History of Jasper County Missouri and Its People" by Joel T. Livingston,
Volume II, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1912, pp. 855-856
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SAMUEL C BOGGESS, a well-known mine operator in Carthage, is a man who has
always felt that education was mann;s best capital and has worked hard to gain an
education that he might be prepared for the high position he intended to make. Men
who have achieved legimate success without education obtained in schools and
universities are numerous and many of the in America try to belittle education, but
in the years to come the so-called self made man, competing in the battle of
business with scholarly rivals, will go down to certain defeat.
Mr Boggess has realized this, and an education he would have. He did not know
exactly what line of work he would choose, be he felt that wherever his lines were
cast, education would profit him. It as taught him to make the most of his natural
abilities. It has taught him how to understand people and it has given him that
culture which is always in itself a sense of power.
Mr Boggess is a young man, but has already had an evertful career. Born
Harrison county, West Virginia, August 12, 1874, he is the son of Samuel Boggess, a
native of West Virginia. Samuel Boggess, Senior, was a well known flour miller in
the state of West Virginia. He died in his native state in 1888. He married Sarah E
Wood, a native of Virginia. She was born December 9,1835, and is still living
(1911), in Cartage, and is greatly respected and honored.
Samuel C Boggess, Junior, received his early education in common schools of
West Virginia. When he was fourteen years old his father died and the following year
he went wit his mother to Carthage, Missouri, arriving here in 1889. They had very
little money and it was necessary for him to at once start to earn money to help his
mother. He was apprenticed to a carpenter in Carthage and learned the trade
thoroughly. At the same time he attended night school, to better fit himself for his
battle with the world. He soon decided that he did not want to be a carpenter, -not
that he felt it to be beneath him, as who can say that one business is more
commendable than another? It is well we do our work and the motive behind it that
gauge its intrinsic value. The work did not, however, satisfy his natural tastes and
abilities. He thought he should like to be a lawyer and entered the offices of
McReynolds & Halliburton, two well known attorneys of Carthage. He took charge of
their abstract and title business and also served as a bookkeeper. He left this firm
and went to Galena, Kansas, and engaged in mining. He worked and prospected at the
same time. He stayed therefor three years and was fairly successful in his
prospecting. He decided to return to Carthage and engage in the loan and insurance
business. He accordingly bought out the Woodford Shannon Agency and conducted the
business for a time. He was successful, but his thoughts were on mining. He sold out
once more and began prospecting and mining. For the next seven years he spent his
time in developing and selling mines in Missouri. At the end of that time he
organized the Boggess Loan Company, which was incorporated in 1910 with a capital of
twenty-five thousand dollars. Dr C B Guinn was president of this company. At the
expiration of one year Mr Boggess bought out all of the other stockholders with the
exception of the two shares which are held by Mt James Luke, the president. Mr B A
Ash is the vice-president and Mr Boggess the secretary and treasurer. Mr Boggess is
also is interested in a number of other large mines and mining companies. He is a
director of the I P Royalty & Mining Company. He is director and stockholder of the
famous Ice Plant & Mining Company, one of the best mines in Webb City district. He
is director and stockholder of the Fullerton Mining Company, of the Scrogan Mining
Company and of the Gibson Mining Company. In addition to these mining connections he
is director of the Central National Bank of Carthage.
On March 8, 1898. Mr Boggess was married to Miss Kate Knight at Carthage,
Missouri. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel D Knight. They came from England
direct to Carthage and are a prominent family in Carthage today. Mrs Boggess is in
every way qualified to fill the position which her husband has made. Mr and Mrs
Boggess have four children; Luke, born April 5, 1899, and now attending school in
Carthage; Edit, born August 15, 1906, Hale, born September 27, 1900 ad died December
8, 1900; and Elizabeth, born July 5, 1904, lived but a few months.
Mr Boggess is man who is intensely interested in a variety of things outside
of his business. He is a member of the Modern Woodman of America and of the Y M C A
, at Carthage, Missouri, and is greatly liked by the yung men. He has a great
influence for good with them. He is a Democrat in politics and, although he is
always most enthusisatic at election times, he has yet no desire to hold office
himself. He and Mrs Boggess are members of the Methodist church and most active
workers. It would be impossible for a man of Mr Boggess' personality t be anything
but pipular wherever he might live. He has acquatintances all over the county and
state and among these are many who are proud to consider thewmselves his friends.
He is a man whom it would be hard to do without.
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Additional Comments:
Samuel Cleveland Boggess (1874WV-1946MO) wife Kate (1876ENG-1928MO) above bio writen
1911, they had another son S C Boggess, Jr, born November 3, 1911. S C married Ruth
Fern Dreisbach (1892MO-1974CA) in Carthage 1937, no children.
Children:
Luke (1899MO-1974MO), married Frances Elizabeth Flora (1898MO-1928MO), 28 August
1921 at Colorado Springs, had two sons L Jack, and yours truly, William Samuel, Luke
married Muriel Margaret (Haight) Busboom (1897NE-1983MO) in Carthage April 1932, w/
daughter Mary Margaret..
Edith (1906MO-1996MD), S C (1911MO-1994FL), married Edwin Albert Hough
(1908LA-1995MD), in Manitou Springs, CO August 1935, had daughter Jane Ellen
S C, Jr, (1911MO-1994FL) married Miriam Jordon, in New Hampshire October 1932, had
three children, S C III, Stephen J and Sharon.
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